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About the Home Page Folder
Your Home Page Folder contains material (web pages) that you want others to view using their web browsers. FirstClass publishes the contents of your Home Page Folder on the web.
Do not move your Home Page Folder off your Desktop, or it will not work properly. If you inadvertently move this folder off your Desktop, you can move it back, and it will work again.
To open your Home Page Folder, choose File > Open > Home Page.
Creating content for your Home Page Folder
To create content for your Home Page Folder, you can:
• drag FirstClass folders, documents, and messages into this folder
Note
Any graphics that were embedded in messages or documents as .png files will be rendered on the web as .gif files.
• store links to containers by pressing Shift while you drag the containers to this folder
Web users will only be able to view conferences if your administrator has set up these conferences to allow this. Web users who are not recognized by the server will be asked to log in when they try to access a restricted conference.
• upload plain text files directly to this folder
These files can contain HTML code.
• create documents directly in this folder.
These documents can contain HTML code. There are two special document forms for creating web pages. Personal Web Page hides the FirstClass toolbars and just shows the page content. Site Web Page also just shows the page content, but includes the site logo.
About HTML documents
Documents containing HTML code that are placed in your Home Page Folder look like source code when you create them and view them using FirstClass, but are rendered as normal web pages when opened with a web browser.
To pass HTML code to a web browser unaltered, so that it will render properly on the web, format the HTML code by selecting it, then choosing Format > Style > Literal HTML. In FirstClass, this format is in fixed-pitch, plain text, and the text is invisible to users who cannot edit the document.
An HTML document can contain URL links to other documents and image files that are located in your Home Page Folder, as well as images embedded directly into the document.
Specifying a home page document
You can designate a document as your home page. FirstClass will open this document when your Home Page Folder is opened with a web browser.
If you do not designate a home page document, anyone accessing your Home Page Folder over the web will see the entire contents of this folder, just as you see them in the FirstClass client.
To make a document that was created using one of the special web page document forms your home page, name it "home page".
To make a document that was created using any other document form your home page, give it one of the following names:
• index.htm or index.html
• home.htm or home.html
• default.htm or default.html.
Viewing others' Home Page Folders
You can see the contents of another user's Home Page Folder by selecting that user in the Directory, then clicking Home Page. Any HTML code in documents viewed this way will look like source code.
If this user does not have a Home Page Folder, you will see the user's résumé.
Customizing how FirstClass looks on your web browser
You can specify how many items are initially downloaded from the server, and how many are displayed per page in listings, on your browser.
To customize FirstClass on your web browser, update your FirstClass web preferences.
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